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>> well, president obama reached out to hu jintao right after president obama was elected. and right after he took office. he's met with hu jintao more than any previous president had met with a counterpart. they have met something upwards of a dozen times. many phone calls. i'm sure that this pattern will continue with the next chinese leadership. the chinese haven't done us a favor yet of telling us who will be in the new leadership. that will be announced on november 8. i think we're all confident we know that the general secretary of the congress party will be xi jinping. will have a pretty good idea of at least four members of the politburo standing committee, and perhaps other members. i think, the important thing here is that china needs to resume the path of aggressive reform in the economic and political area. i think xi jinping is a very, very smart man who understands what china needs to do. a real linkage between economic and political reform in china. these are not unrelated. again, going back to the road report -- world bank report i mentioned, one of the key
>> well, president obama reached out to hu jintao right after president obama was elected. and right after he took office. he's met with hu jintao more than any previous president had met with a counterpart. they have met something upwards of a dozen times. many phone calls. i'm sure that this pattern will continue with the next chinese leadership. the chinese haven't done us a favor yet of telling us who will be in the new leadership. that will be announced on november 8. i think we're...
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>> i think we can continue to do what we're doing, number one, elect barack obama. i think that's number one. number two, i mean, we're out there basically working on legislation, we're working on plans to get america moving again, put people back to work. we're working with the administration, the democrats in the house and the senate, to come up with bills that are going to where we can start rebuilding america, shovel-ready jobs where we can get bridges, roads, tunnels rebuilt, put people back to work. we've already seen it with the auto industry. we need more of things like that that are putting people back to work that are real, and you can count, and you can look at them and say 100, 200,000 people are back to work because of that action, and that worked. >> how can labor help challenge foreign companies like foxcon to make the american century? >> well, that's probably one of the really embarrassing things with regard to foxcon. that's apple, right? and it's just amazing that, you know, we have all this going on and a company like, you know, as rich as apple
>> i think we can continue to do what we're doing, number one, elect barack obama. i think that's number one. number two, i mean, we're out there basically working on legislation, we're working on plans to get america moving again, put people back to work. we're working with the administration, the democrats in the house and the senate, to come up with bills that are going to where we can start rebuilding america, shovel-ready jobs where we can get bridges, roads, tunnels rebuilt, put...
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he was the lead pollster and senior strategist for president barack obama during the 2008 election, and he'll continue in that role in this cycle. he's been a pollster and a strategist for u.s. senators, governors and, yes, mayors from around the country. at all after our recent meetings, i've asked that national poller thes help us better -- pollsters help us better understand the priorities of the american people, how a bipartisan agenda on job creation is registering with voters, and i'm very pleased that joel is here today with his polling data to help us with that discussion. so, please, join me in welcoming joel benenson. [applause] >> thank you, mayor i have ri goes saw. thank you to the conference of majors and all of you for inviting me today. i don't know if mayor knows this or not when he quoted yogi berra, bun of the charitable ventures that i engage in back home is i'm on the board of directors of the yogi berra museum and learning center. [laughter] yogi lives in montclair, new jersey, which is the town where i live in. 's lived there since he -- he's lived this since he p
he was the lead pollster and senior strategist for president barack obama during the 2008 election, and he'll continue in that role in this cycle. he's been a pollster and a strategist for u.s. senators, governors and, yes, mayors from around the country. at all after our recent meetings, i've asked that national poller thes help us better -- pollsters help us better understand the priorities of the american people, how a bipartisan agenda on job creation is registering with voters, and i'm...
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the goal of american crossroads is to be president obama into electing a president but were also heavily invested in senate and house races. a lot of the other super pacs or not. we are focused on all of the senate races are where you see a lot more of the advertising earlier on just because senate races, people figure, pay more attention earlier. will also engage in number of house races problems later. >> look, that's the other thing. crossroads place an outsized role in the senate races, and don't think that these two are not wind. i'm not suggesting it nefarious, but even if let's just say there's parity between the democrats and republicans in presidential advertising, the republican side, crossroads and others, our way of outspending on the senate races and house races. and those all have an impact because it's the infinite, how do people feel when there's millions of dollars in ad spending in the state of montana, for example, on the senate race, it affects the house race, it affects other races below it. and so that's one of, i don't know this unintended consequences but it's cer
the goal of american crossroads is to be president obama into electing a president but were also heavily invested in senate and house races. a lot of the other super pacs or not. we are focused on all of the senate races are where you see a lot more of the advertising earlier on just because senate races, people figure, pay more attention earlier. will also engage in number of house races problems later. >> look, that's the other thing. crossroads place an outsized role in the senate...
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let's just say for the sake of argument that, in fact, obama does win this election as now seems more probable than not. there's going to be a lot of disappointment, angst and so on on the republican side. how do you think the debate's going to play out? how closely are people in the party going to grapple if this does happen with some of the issues we've just been discussing? >> i think it's going to play out in a way that will both disappoint conservative activists and democrats. so, basically, the reason why idealogues like me care about this election is a the affordable care act, and i think when you look at a lot of folks on the right, there's a real belief that the affordable care act creates a universal health system that is going to prove problematic in lot of ways, and you also hear this from a lot of liberal policy scholars as well that, you know, kind of basically the divide between esi and the exchanges is a tricky one, and it's hard to see how exactly that's going to play out. we can have a debate about it, but that's the basic idea, that this is going to prove far more c
let's just say for the sake of argument that, in fact, obama does win this election as now seems more probable than not. there's going to be a lot of disappointment, angst and so on on the republican side. how do you think the debate's going to play out? how closely are people in the party going to grapple if this does happen with some of the issues we've just been discussing? >> i think it's going to play out in a way that will both disappoint conservative activists and democrats. so,...
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president barack obama in mid-run for cover the ground there, so we elected to move on without the. we hope we have waited your appetite to learn more about the candidates before election day. on behalf of their but here at wpp the news channel five, we wish you and yours the very best. thank you for taking time to join us, and good night. >> when i watch c-span, i particularly like the congressional hearings, sometimes he had the hearings on pieces of legislation before poorly care the house of representatives when they have their proceedings. i have found the congressional hearing coverage articulate interest on subjects like the subject matter like something do with veterans affairs or procreation. you get an idea if this is of public interest but you want to get c-span as we can actually listen to live test of the usually in an hour to you can get the raw data. >> he watches c-span on comcast. c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought you as a public service by your television provider. >> today, one day after the final presidential debate, the candidates are
president barack obama in mid-run for cover the ground there, so we elected to move on without the. we hope we have waited your appetite to learn more about the candidates before election day. on behalf of their but here at wpp the news channel five, we wish you and yours the very best. thank you for taking time to join us, and good night. >> when i watch c-span, i particularly like the congressional hearings, sometimes he had the hearings on pieces of legislation before poorly care the...
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. >> it was almost as though the last election was one in which barack obama and his very embodiment challenged about blacks and every time he referred to the single mother, they would blink and say oh, it's not a black single mother, to white single mother. and every time they talk about a father, it was a delayed response to some after they didn't know quite where to fit in. ultimately,, at the same time, there was a longer conversation with wes warriors what needs to be single mother who is not black and so i think there was a real wine. i was afraid there would be a backlash and all of us were feeling. they were putting forth the same effort they put forward for years. the prejudices and they never really re-examine what it would mean to reconsider those tropes in those slightly shifted things. and so when you had todd akin, we'll really have to think a lot about, is that religious religion, or is it really deep and historical sense of oneness? my own little theory is that it became until recently, people like strom thurmond, the fact that so many white men, historically in this
. >> it was almost as though the last election was one in which barack obama and his very embodiment challenged about blacks and every time he referred to the single mother, they would blink and say oh, it's not a black single mother, to white single mother. and every time they talk about a father, it was a delayed response to some after they didn't know quite where to fit in. ultimately,, at the same time, there was a longer conversation with wes warriors what needs to be single mother...
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obama was elected with a surplus of about three million votes. he campaigned on this issue. again, the speaker can't take yes for an answer. the president has presented tops him something that would prevent us from going over the cliff. it wasom in response to somethig the speaker gave to the president himself. but, again, i guess with thegues dysfunctional republican caucus in the house even the speaker can't tell what they're going to do, because he backed off from even his own proposal. mr. president, the house, weesid hear this so often, is controlled by the republicans, and we acknowledge that. be most happy to moveckno forward on something thato senator mcconnell said theyt wouldn't filibuster over here, that he would sport -- support and that boehner would sport if it werehe reasonable. but right now we haven't heard anything. i don't know, and it's nonw e ot my business, i guess, if the speaker and the majority leaderl are even talking. i mean, what's going on here? mr. president, you can't legislate with yourself. we have nobody to work with, to compromise. that's w
obama was elected with a surplus of about three million votes. he campaigned on this issue. again, the speaker can't take yes for an answer. the president has presented tops him something that would prevent us from going over the cliff. it wasom in response to somethig the speaker gave to the president himself. but, again, i guess with thegues dysfunctional republican caucus in the house even the speaker can't tell what they're going to do, because he backed off from even his own proposal. mr....
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he didn't vote for barack obama this time. these are fairly underpopulated counties but when you add the method comes with two episodes. this is about maternal match put together 59% of the though, a tremendous total in a swing state. of course, in 2010, we had a bit of a shelter in massachusetts. but even now when, scott round win came in critical areas. the liberal areas that the state western berkshires went for martha coakley just as strongly as they have for barack obama. it was the white working class areas and there is an island state. it swung towards scott brown and also the suburbs around the loop around boston. these are the areas that's one most heavily toward scott brown. these are the areas bill clinton at reinvigorated faith in the democratic party. in november 2010, clinton coalition of silly fell apart. democrats lost 66 house seats for picking up seats for republicans. we're showing for any party in the house election since 1948. or showing any party midterm elections 1938. we can see the types in c. this cha
he didn't vote for barack obama this time. these are fairly underpopulated counties but when you add the method comes with two episodes. this is about maternal match put together 59% of the though, a tremendous total in a swing state. of course, in 2010, we had a bit of a shelter in massachusetts. but even now when, scott round win came in critical areas. the liberal areas that the state western berkshires went for martha coakley just as strongly as they have for barack obama. it was the white...
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barack obama won this election by a 50-48% margin. that may go up to around off 51-48 when california comes in california's last time to wipe weeks to count its votes. account with five cars in brazil but i'm not sure what california is so much less technologically advanced. but there we are. for all these figures are necessarily a little incomplete as they apply to the nation. there's some other states with votes still out, too. it appears that obama will get a huge electoral vote advantage out of this relatively narrow popular vote margin. assuming he carries florida what he is in current counts ahead in the miami-dade county, people are this year counting votes without the assistance of many republican and democratic lawyers. with florida commit electoral vote, 332-206. bush was a 51-40 margin in 2004 only got 286 votes. obama was slightly less it appeared, gets 332. i think there's a certain structural demographic advantage for democrats in the electoral college in this era. democratic voters tend to be clustered in something larg
barack obama won this election by a 50-48% margin. that may go up to around off 51-48 when california comes in california's last time to wipe weeks to count its votes. account with five cars in brazil but i'm not sure what california is so much less technologically advanced. but there we are. for all these figures are necessarily a little incomplete as they apply to the nation. there's some other states with votes still out, too. it appears that obama will get a huge electoral vote advantage...
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we are committed to electing all pro-worker, working on the candidates running for office at all levels of government. and i just want to say, i appreciate your time and thank you for the opportunity. >> rick, we thank you for coming, and for your testimony. are there questions for rick? you have convinced us. thank you, rick, and thanks to seiu and all your members for all you do. thank you so much. well, i want to say thank you to each of the committee members. you are a hardy group. we have been here approaching six hours, and so this concludes our presentations for today. we have heard some wonderful organizations and wonderful individuals who provided us with important information, and we thank our speakers for being your. tomorrow, our day will begin with a breakfast for members only in the red river room to and that's located on the third floor of the marquette hotel, the red river room. we will then move from their back to this room to continue our hearings promptly at 9 a.m. so breakfast together in the red river room tomorrow. u.. in the lobby hanging back. [talking over each
we are committed to electing all pro-worker, working on the candidates running for office at all levels of government. and i just want to say, i appreciate your time and thank you for the opportunity. >> rick, we thank you for coming, and for your testimony. are there questions for rick? you have convinced us. thank you, rick, and thanks to seiu and all your members for all you do. thank you so much. well, i want to say thank you to each of the committee members. you are a hardy group. we...
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obama was always going to be pretty much fine. he will probably be outspent this election, but he's an incumbent sitting president with enormous fund-raising potential. he was not going to be a huge disadvantage, but if you have a playing field next time in which either both parties are running from the ground up for the democrats are running against republican incumbents from the ground up, it's difficult to see how any candidate can really get into the race without having a few very wealthy friends. and that really changes the whole way politics is done in these early primary days but basically you need your billionaire or your 100 million or. and there's a real concern among democrats that the candidates are able to get in the race, or worse leave the country -- leader country on the path toward a situation which not just wealthy people, not just people who give $2500, but people who give 1 million-dollar or 5 million or $10 million checks. the numbers will keep going up, have increasing control over the political process, and
obama was always going to be pretty much fine. he will probably be outspent this election, but he's an incumbent sitting president with enormous fund-raising potential. he was not going to be a huge disadvantage, but if you have a playing field next time in which either both parties are running from the ground up for the democrats are running against republican incumbents from the ground up, it's difficult to see how any candidate can really get into the race without having a few very wealthy...
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it wasn't just obama. in the republic celebrated the vindication of the emerging democratic majority thesis. we can go on and on. harold meyerson exhorted the president-elect to bring on the new deal while paul krugman said it all the title of his postelection column, franklin delano obama. by all-time favorite has to be this "newsweek" cover. [laughter] as rick perry might say, whoops. things didn't turn out this way. the easy answer to why that's the case is obama overspent. americans turned against the health care bill in the tea partiers brought about a resurgent american right that helped to build his congressional majority. although this played a role to be sure. but the more fundamental question, if obama had really assembled an fdr like coalition time he should've been able to overcome these forces. after all, you will recall or maybe you want an fdr's presidency, democratic nominees from 192819241928 had all joined together to oppose his presidency but in 1834 midterms. a huge backlash among the d
it wasn't just obama. in the republic celebrated the vindication of the emerging democratic majority thesis. we can go on and on. harold meyerson exhorted the president-elect to bring on the new deal while paul krugman said it all the title of his postelection column, franklin delano obama. by all-time favorite has to be this "newsweek" cover. [laughter] as rick perry might say, whoops. things didn't turn out this way. the easy answer to why that's the case is obama overspent....
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>> by all appearances, it was a status quo election, returning us to the division of power; obama in the white house, democrats in control of the senate, republicans of the house. but appearances can be deceiving, and in this case are. the most important reality of the election is that the republican effort to oppose anything and everything proposed by obama -- almost like a parliamentary party -- was not rewarded. the taking the debt ceiling hostage was not rewarded, calling the obama health care plan which was their own only a few years earlier socialism was not rewarded. that was not they have to begin to rethink themselves and, importantly, democrats will not automatically embrace the same tactics in opposition. so i think that was an important change that creates a new dynamic not that's going to solve our problems. there's going to be no sitting around the campfire in washington making nice to one another. but the possibility now exists for a real effort and a successful effort to deal with our most pressing problems. >> two familiar washington faces, thomas mann and norm ornst
>> by all appearances, it was a status quo election, returning us to the division of power; obama in the white house, democrats in control of the senate, republicans of the house. but appearances can be deceiving, and in this case are. the most important reality of the election is that the republican effort to oppose anything and everything proposed by obama -- almost like a parliamentary party -- was not rewarded. the taking the debt ceiling hostage was not rewarded, calling the obama...
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get when they hear barack obama speak. i got this feeling up my leg -- >> no, steady. >> it's a dramatic event. he speaks about america that has to do about the feeling we have of our country, and that is an objective assessment. ♪ >> i read that you once took a psychological profile test and the position you're most suited for is undertaker? [laughter] >> on the bus ride along the snowy road to lebanon, new hampshire, i showed him this week's "newsweek" hot off the presses. how does this feel, of all the honors that have come your way, all the publicity? >> well, i've not seen this. so it's quite something. you know, it -- >> who does it make you think of? is there a loved one? last time we were together i handed you a copy of "newsweek." have you yet held this in your hand? >> the fact of the matter is the comparison between her and hillary clinton is the comparison between an igloo and the empire state building. >> i want to just stipulate at the beginning of this interview, we are declaring a reverend wright-free zon
get when they hear barack obama speak. i got this feeling up my leg -- >> no, steady. >> it's a dramatic event. he speaks about america that has to do about the feeling we have of our country, and that is an objective assessment. ♪ >> i read that you once took a psychological profile test and the position you're most suited for is undertaker? [laughter] >> on the bus ride along the snowy road to lebanon, new hampshire, i showed him this week's "newsweek" hot...
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change of 60,000 votes could have elected john kerry president. a have back in my room a chart that has been worked up that has a very plausible, very plausible scenario where president obama loses the popular vote but is elected president of the united states by targeting those handful of votes, targeting those big cities, targeting of a billion dollars he plans to run, resources in order to cobble together an electoral college victory. let's don't look and this thing as a partisan thing. as a centralization. when your diffusing power and you can say you are taking power out of the hands of the electors in the states and in my home state of tennessee they are not even on the ballot. very relevant. founding fathers didn't unanimously do anything. the way they set it up with a compromise, the side what they're going to do about this. the state's -- state legislature could take it away from you as a citizen altogether if they wanted to and it would still be constitutional and certainly saying as a country that we are going to take the power out of t
change of 60,000 votes could have elected john kerry president. a have back in my room a chart that has been worked up that has a very plausible, very plausible scenario where president obama loses the popular vote but is elected president of the united states by targeting those handful of votes, targeting those big cities, targeting of a billion dollars he plans to run, resources in order to cobble together an electoral college victory. let's don't look and this thing as a partisan thing. as a...
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they elected obama and the only time in my lifetime and election in this country where people under 35 turned out to both. i'm not worried about young people but i do think they ought to vote and i tell them politicians may not help you much but they can hurt you so it does matter who wins. you at least ought to vote and that is part of the price of being a citizen is voting. paying taxes and voting as oliver wendell holmes said the price you pay. but i wouldn't give a little bit long song and dance. it's repulsive what's going on in washington and i don't believe -- lame people for being disgusted and as winston churchill once said democracy is the worst form of government except for every other and i wouldn't want to try some of the others. i think they have got to vote in its part of their duty but i think they will make their mark in america doing things outside the political and reorganize the whole lot of things that need to be reorganized and won't have to worry about institutional failures of wall street and politicians because they can create. they can get on the net and find
they elected obama and the only time in my lifetime and election in this country where people under 35 turned out to both. i'm not worried about young people but i do think they ought to vote and i tell them politicians may not help you much but they can hurt you so it does matter who wins. you at least ought to vote and that is part of the price of being a citizen is voting. paying taxes and voting as oliver wendell holmes said the price you pay. but i wouldn't give a little bit long song and...
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to wait that long, but after the election, they, president obama, republican controlled house and senate. i think at that point some reasonable solutions will be promulgated. that's my hope and my belief. and it just takes that time. and it's too bad with the gerrymandered districts fox news, cnn, no one stays in wash on the weekend and talks about anything. you're penalized if you compromise. you lose in your home district. that dynamic is just killing us right now as a country. we've got to have a cathartic experience that gets us to the other side. >> what does it take, i'm asking for more of a political leadership question, both of you, what does it take for leaders to lead and actually use that leverage, that leadership leverage on the country to move washington a little bit more? you're taubing to leaders not only here but around the world. what are you not seeing out of this president or congressional leaders with whom you're doing business? >> jim and andrew we've been all active on the brt. business kind of sad, let's take the deficit on. let's solve it. we've spoken more with o
to wait that long, but after the election, they, president obama, republican controlled house and senate. i think at that point some reasonable solutions will be promulgated. that's my hope and my belief. and it just takes that time. and it's too bad with the gerrymandered districts fox news, cnn, no one stays in wash on the weekend and talks about anything. you're penalized if you compromise. you lose in your home district. that dynamic is just killing us right now as a country. we've got to...
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. >> in order voters have been credited largely with having created a lot of the force that elected obama. something we have seen, rampant unemployment that has hit them in record numbers. my question is, what do you see happening with the youth vote in this cycle? do you think republicans embraced their relationship with the younger voters enough to eat and to sway the other side? >> in general would you say and her voters are richer report? they don't have their careers yet. so the tendency is for them to lean toward the person who is not going to increase taxes, who will increase -- the opposite, will increase taxes on the rich to help provide for the less rich. let's ordered the way. but what happens? you're right. all of those people really helped along,. a lot of them did not vote, but it was the momentum and enthusiasm, and that just add this groundswell that swept barack obama into office. burst their bubble. at that he would pay my car mortgage. at that would get a new car. allow the people think that. the question is, to those people not vote this time would they move to another
. >> in order voters have been credited largely with having created a lot of the force that elected obama. something we have seen, rampant unemployment that has hit them in record numbers. my question is, what do you see happening with the youth vote in this cycle? do you think republicans embraced their relationship with the younger voters enough to eat and to sway the other side? >> in general would you say and her voters are richer report? they don't have their careers yet. so...
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>> my son in first grade came hollen and announced that president obama had won his class election unanimously. [laughter] that he was a democrat. [laughter] he told me that with grape jelly covering his face. i said, it is ok to be a democrat but you must not eat like one. [laughter] [no audio] [applause] [applause] but look, for republicans, one of the things that was curious about the election with mitt romney -- as someone who is outside of washington, pool had no ownership of any of the congressional republican dysfunction from the delayed congress at all over the last 10 years -- his hands were absolutely pure on spending. he had the ability, i think, to rebuke those republican -- the republican spending profligacy and democratic spending profligacy. he was only credible in offering a criticism of spending under the administration if he was able to burst -- first talk about republican spending in the area, that we were going in a new direction. i think that a -- i think the republicans confused the word oversight and regulation. sometimes we need regulation. sometimes we do not need regu
>> my son in first grade came hollen and announced that president obama had won his class election unanimously. [laughter] that he was a democrat. [laughter] he told me that with grape jelly covering his face. i said, it is ok to be a democrat but you must not eat like one. [laughter] [no audio] [applause] [applause] but look, for republicans, one of the things that was curious about the election with mitt romney -- as someone who is outside of washington, pool had no ownership of any of...
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everybody who is elected will be different from how they are when they run for office but, and you can't keep all your promises but in his case it seemed like he was even more different than that, especially when it came to issues about negotiations. issues about appointments. issues about backing down on guantanamo closing et cetera. and also people he hired to work before him at the beginning which were a lot of wall street experts who worked for the clinton administration and part of the economic disaster that had been happening. so i dieded i would -- decided try to figure out what that is about and what that came from so i started reading and one of the things that happened actually during the primary when i was not thinking about a book at all, a colleague of mine suggested i read, "dreams from my father". it is one of the great books. i adored it. it was a good being book about coming of age as adolescent ever, certainly, as a nonfiction book although some people might think it is fiction. and so i decided that not only would i work by studying obama as a president, his behavior a
everybody who is elected will be different from how they are when they run for office but, and you can't keep all your promises but in his case it seemed like he was even more different than that, especially when it came to issues about negotiations. issues about appointments. issues about backing down on guantanamo closing et cetera. and also people he hired to work before him at the beginning which were a lot of wall street experts who worked for the clinton administration and part of the...